Paramilitary forces remain active despite failed demobilization tactics between 2002 and 2006, and they continue to commit rights abuses.
In their latest fact sheet, published in 2009, the office of the Presidential High Counselor for Reintegration revealed the statistic that out of 51.852 persons who expressed their willingness to demobilize between August 2002 and September 2009, only 60% participated in the demobilization program.
The influence of combat experience on traumatization, as well as the motivation for demobilization, differs remarkably between those combatants who demobilized individually and those who were members of a group that was forced to demobilize.
At the same time, paramilitaries, known locally as criminal bands or "Bacrim," continue to rise in numbers since a failed demobilization process took place between 2005 and 2006.
Most of the participants from the paramilitary forces had been demobilized in groups (collective demobilization: n = 90), whereas only about one third demobilized of their own accord (individual demobilization: n = 49).
The system should give the managers the required level of authority and this helps in mobilization and demobilization of HR and equipment between distant projects.
As in the two other measures, the trauma symptom severity and the severity of trauma exposure, the score did not differ significantly between groups (collective demobilization: M = 15.1, SD = 12.8, individual demobilization: M = 14.7, SD = 11.3; independent sample t-test: t250 = .24, p = .81, d = .09).09
She is one of 20,000 guerillas demobilized since 2002, when the demobilization program began.
We distinguished between individual and group demobilization and assessed reasons for disarmament.
